In a move which appears to have been so surprising to Western officials that they weren’t able to muster their usual canned condemnation, the Iranian government has offered a broad-based new nuclear deal with the international community.
The offer, coming from Fereydoun Abbasi, the head of Iran’s nuclear authority, pledged “full supervision” of Iran’s program for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in return for an end to all sanctions against Iran.
Exactly how broadly this would extend is unclear, but it appears to go well beyond Iran’s current requirements under its safeguards agreement with the IAEA, which it is currently complying with, and potentially beyond the additional protocols Western officials have demanded they submit to.
At the same time, Abbasi’s offer would have Iran continuing civilian enrichment of uranium, something it has every right to do under international law, but which has also been an excuse for harsh international sanctions and repeated threats by the US and Israel to attack.
Iran doesn´t seem to understand its relationship with the US – Iran´s nuclear program has nothing to do with anything. Iran is simply being punished – it dared to defy the empire and now it too has to pay the price.
Smart move from Iran. Calling the Western bluff is the best way to deal with the patent hypocrisy of war-mongers. Wonder if Israel has to deploy its nuclear arsenal before a kow-towing West finally demands similar IAEA inspections!
I predict a response along these lines: "We cannot take this offer seriously, of course, because while they offer full supervsion of the sites they have told us about, they have left out all the secret sites they have not told us about. Where are these secret sites, you ask? In the area of Tehran, generally, north, south, east and west of there, according to our intelligence."
This will be regarded as a sign of weakness by the idiots and morons in Washington and their response will be to increase their demands of Iran.
If the concern was about the Iranian government develloping nuclear weapons, this offfer should be enough to end all sanctions against the people of Iran. However, the sanctions have nothing to do with the fear that the Iranian government might develop nuclear weapons. Iran's alleged Nuclear weapons program, like Iraq's alleged stockplile of WMD, is just a pretext for war. The purpose of ever increasing sanctions it to bring about a war with Iran. The primary goal of that war would be to gain control of the oil and natural gas resources or Iran. The secondary goal would be to defang another enemy of Israel.
If it doesn't include a guarantee of "regime change" then the US of Israel will refuse to accept the offer.
Good for the Iranians to catch the Israelis and Americans flat-footed. Of course, the decision still has to be ratified by the Iranian Parliament, which refused to ratify the additional IAEA protocols since the West wasn't playing fairly, to the extent that someone *cough* Israel *cough* destroyed their enrichment capability with the Stuxnet computer virus. No one is saying that enrichment can't lead to nuclear weapons production. It can. But in the complete lack of evidence to support the assertion that they are trying to build nuclear weapons, and in the face of much evidence to the contrary, the West will have to accept the fact that no one can prove a negative.
I agree with most of the prior comments.
Just wanted to add that it's fun to watch Iran jerk U.S. tail from time to time.
I hate the fact Israel breaks all the laws possible and Iran has not started a war with no one in hundreds of years and the tyranicle US regime gives them a hard time.But its smart on Irans part America has 10 years if its very lucky before it fully collapses.Then China and Russia and Iran and many others will be able to treat them like they treated others.Israewl is the real danger not just in the Mid East but the world.I want to see them disarmed an d treated like they treat people.Time is running out for them and America unless the US government is removed and restored to a republic not a criminal empire.